Deer Limiting Factor Codes
Code Limiting
Factor Category
Primarily
Affects
0
Domestic
livestock forage competition
Habitat
Management
1
Habitat
succession/ maturation
Habitat
Management
2
Urban
expansion
Habitat
Conservation
3
Public
land habitat availability
Habitat
Conservation
4
Increased
road densities
Habitat
Management
5
Riparian
impacts
Habitat
Management
6
Timber
harvest impacts
Habitat
Management
7
Depredation
Habitat
Management
8
Limited
private land access
Population
Management
9
Artificial
feeding
Habitat
Management
10 Habitat conversion Habitat Management
11
Social
carrying capacity exceeded
Population
Management
12
Late
seral stages needed
Habitat
Management
13 High Density Recreation Habitat Management
14 Water availability Habitat Management
15
Transport/Water conveyance
corridors
Population
Management
16 Mineral Extraction/Exploration Population Management
17 Competition with other wild ungulates Habitat Management
18 Special Situation (see below) Habitat-Population Management
Areas
where deer populations may occur, intermittently, or in small numbers. In
some instances, the public may receive wildlife viewing, photographic
or
consumptive recreational uses. However,
land ownership, social carrying capacity considerations, weather
limitations,
range conditions, and small size or configuration of the topography is
not suitable
to manage for increasing deer populations at the present time.Other
situations could include game farms, tribal
lands, past catastrophic fires,
invasion of weedy species, feral horses etc.
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